Trisha R. Thomas

A young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South. 1850. I was six years old the day Lewis Holt came to take me away. Born into slavery, light-skinned Dahlia never knew her mother--or what happened to her. When Dahlia's father, the owner of Vesterville plantation, takes her to work in his home as a servant, she's desperately lonely. Forced to leave behind her best friend, Bo, she lives in a world between black and white, belonging to neither. Ten years later, Dahlia meets Timothy Ross, an Englishman in need of a wife. Reinventing herself as Lily Dove, Dahlia allows Timothy to believe she's white, with no family to speak of, and agrees to marry him. She knows the danger of being found out. She also knows she'll never have this chance at freedom again. Ensconced in the Ross mansion, Dahlia soon finds herself held captive in a different way--as the dutiful wife of a young plantation owner who has set his sights on a political future. But when Bo arrives on the estate in shackles, Dahlia decides to risk everything to save his life. With suspicions of her true identity growing and a bounty hunter not far behind, Dahlia must act fast or pay a devastating price.

What Passes as Love

Bored and restless with her life, thirty-four-year-old African American Venus Johnson discovers new strength and power when she decides to quit coaxing her hair straight and proudly adopts a natural hairstyle.

Nappily Ever After

A Novel

Secret Keeper of Main Street

Nappily Entangled

Nappily Married

After the NETFLIX Original movie and bestselling Nappily Ever After, Venus returns in a heart warming new novel.Being married to a TV star, raising their children in a plush Atlanta penthouse, and ducking anyone with a camera phone is part of the territory. And what's a celebrity without having a stalker or two? She's taken the bumps and bruises as gracefully as possible. Heaven forbid she leave the house in sweats, no make-up, and a head wrap. But the worst of it, ignoring the countless stories of Jake's indiscretions and swiping everything away as industry gossip, has made her rethink the road less traveled. Within a few days of bumping into her ex, Clint Fairchild feelings are rekindled. Feelings are ignored. This is the life she chose; married until death do they part. Even when news of another scandal breaks, Venus kicks into high gear as the superwife and fixer, all the while not sure if she wants to go along quietly through yet another one of her husband's public disgraces. She wonders if there's another life waiting for her. One stoic and quiet behind the white picket fence she's always wanted. It's time to finally decide, Team Clint or Team Jake. She chooses the one person who will love her forever and always, through thick or thin, ups and downs, and above all else, someone she can truly depend on. This novel is for anyone who needs to learn how to say goodbye, especially when it's the hardest thing in the world to do.

Trisha R. Thomas

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